I’m outside, standing around. Colt Lugar comes out. I ask him if he’s involved with the construction at the Strib HQ, and he says no, it’s our company’s subcontractors. But his side works with them on hot work, and cutting off water to the sprinklers -
“Which is a different water source than the domestic water,” I say, and he busts up.
“I thought I would wait years to use that term,” I said. “Only took one day.”
Then wenotice something across the street at the Hennepin County building.
(Shot from my office window.)
I don’t know what they’re doing, but . . .
. . . when you gotta go, you gotta go.
You may recall I showed you a preview of the banner that would have stood atop the April main index page, except that I changed my mind.
It went through many iterations in the AI upscale program.
I don't know where it came from, but as I said a few weeks ago, I discovered what it was when going through a Bordon annual report. Are you ready? It's the interior view of the blind testing room!
Sketch of the new Consumer Testing Laboratory of The Borden Kitchen, New York City. The laboratory is designed for the scientific sampling of foods by a panel of Borden employees. Special controls guarantee that each tester samples under identical conditions and reduce to a minimum external influences that might allect test results. The work of the panel is often a preliminary to broad-scale market testing of products.
So now you know.
I stumbled across something on YouTube that hit me in a way I hadn’t expected. Years ago, in the dim misty recesses of the latter 70s, when I was a smart modern lad keen to be abreast of all the smart modern trends, I was a fan of a band called Be-Bop Deluxe. I had enjoyed their previous albums - great prog with an astonishing guitarist, Bill Nelson. For their Drastic Plastic album, they jumped ahead of the zeitgeist a few yards, adopting the shirt-and-tie style of the New Wave, and letting us know they were indeed modern by including the word “new” in the title of the first two songs.
Look! TV for heads! They get it!
I saw them on tour for the album. They opened for . . . Alice Cooper. I remember that Nelson snapped a string during one particularly energetic solo and just adapted as if nothing untoward had happened. I still listen to his work from time to time, as well as subsequent releases. He’s one of those guys who just never stops.
A YouTube search brought up a video that hit me, as I said, for a few reasons. One, he’s not a lithe fellow anymore. Makes you wonder if all British muscians eventually morph into Elvis Costello in his later years. Sounds familiar, though, even though I’ve only heard him speak. Two, the size of the crowd is obscene for a man of his talent. Three, I just thought it was incredibly beautiful. The first notes me played laid me low and took me straight back to 1978.
Imagine being able to do that, and not being famous and wealthy beyond compare.
It’s 1929.
My favorite year! Well, no. But it’s a fascinating one, because we know what’s coming.
It’s all so disgusting!
You’d think the position of the people would be reversed, no?
Dogs in cartoons are always scampering alongside the kids, looking up like this.
I don't know, ask him when he gets back,
I mean, yeah, ouch, but it could’ve been much, much worse.
He gets in the paper because of connections? Probably not. They printed every farm accident in the county.
As governor, Johnston successfully proposed the establishment of a crippled children's hospital and a large increase to school aid funds. His trouble began with complaints about his private secretary holding too much power and making executive decisions that he should be making. After an unsuccessful and unconstitutional special session to impeach the governor in 1927, a new group of state lawmakers impeached the governor in 1929.
They really had it out for the guy.
Ignoring both courts, the state legislature proceeded with its plans and headed for the Oklahoma State Capitol to continue with impeachment charges. The Oklahoma Legislature was only stopped when Oklahoma National Guard troops, under the orders of Johnston, prevented them from entering the Capitol. This did not stop the Legislature from acting.
The Legislature convened on December 13, 1927 in the Huckins Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. There, the Oklahoma House of Representatives raised charges, which the Oklahoma Senate as the Court of Impeachment agreed to, against Governor Johnston and many members of his administration.
However, realizing that the judicial branch sided with the executive branch on this matter, and that the courts were concerned over the legality of their session, the state senate dismissed the issues and the state legislature adjourned. The whole event only made Johnston more popular and powerful.
The people loved him for using the courts to decide the issue, rather than martial law.
They usually do.
The Huckins, by the way, went down in 1971. More here.
Nice digs, I guess - and your periodic reminder that the 20s interiors were more likely to be overstuffed than Deco Moderne, as some think.
Charm, you say
It’s great to see cliched phrases in actual use - rah rah sis boom bah, in this case, although they go with ziz.
I wonder if it was always ziz at the beginning, and we lost the truth and swapped in "sis" because we misunderstood a line in a song or old movie. According to a 1941 movie, it was ZIS.
That'll do. It's back to the 50s now, for another attempt to chew through the vast Advertising section. Today: the beginning of the Food section. Specifically, the Coffee subsection of the Food section. See you around ~
(NOTE: 50s graphics not displaying properly. Paths are correct; don't know why. Will fix. Click on the picture to advance.)
